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What is it then, my brothers? when you come together everyone has a holy song, or a revelation, or a tongue, or is giving the sense of it. Let everything be done for the common good.

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If any man makes use of a tongue, let it not be more than two, or at the most three, and in turn and let someone give the sense:

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But if there is no one to give the sense, let him keep quiet in the church and let his words be to himself and to God.

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And let the prophets give their words, but not more than two or three, and let the others be judges of what they say.

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But if a revelation is given to another who is seated near, let the first be quiet.

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For you may all be prophets in turn so that all may get knowledge and comfort

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And the spirits of the prophets are controlled by the prophets

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For God is not a God whose ways are without order, but a God of peace as in all the churches of the saints.

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Let women keep quiet in the churches: for it is not right for them to be talking but let them be under control, as it says in the law.

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And if they have a desire for knowledge about anything, let them put questions to their husbands privately: for talking in the church puts shame on a woman.

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What? was it from you that the word of God went out? or did it only come in to you?

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If any man seems to himself to be a prophet or to have the Spirit, let him take note of the things which I am writing to you, as being the word of the Lord.

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But if any man is without knowledge, let him be so.

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So then, my brothers, let it be your chief desire to be prophets but let no one be stopped from using tongues.

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Let all things be done in the right and ordered way.